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...With the Dahl books, some of it seems an understandable but mostly emotional reaction to thinking that things from your childhood are being taken away, said Mary-Anne Harrington, an editor at Headline....
...With her gargoyle-like features, receding hairline, apparent lack of teeth and wrinkled yet cantilevered cleavage, “The Ugly Duchess” makes Roald Dahl’s Mrs Twit look like a supermodel....
...Jonkers just sold a signed first edition of Roald Dahl’s The Witches with a petrol-blue title illustrated by Quentin Blake for £6,750; Shapero is selling a first-edition of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio with a...
...Then we got one saying: ‘I’ve got a first-edition Frankenstein signed by Mary Shelley.’ No, you don’t.” In the case of Mary Shelley, they did – and it was valued at £350,000....
...Over them all presided those ultimate Euro imports, William and Mary from the Netherlands. They loved baroque landscape gardening....
...“Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell” came next, with vocalist John Winfield delivering the William Blake words with a gruffed-up blues-rock shout....
...My whole world changed when I discovered Roald Dahl. I was a complete bookworm as a child. I devoured Mary Norton, Susan Coolidge, Noel Streatfeild....
...The funeral marked the passing of a secretive genius, two months short of his 90th birthday, who became Italy’s richest man by dreaming up a cornucopia of candies evocative of Roald Dahl’s fictional character...
...The Street, Preston St Mary, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 9NG; 01787 247 440; thesixbellspreston.com The Rosevine A boutique hotel on the stunning Cornish coast with an on-site deli and a beautiful mahogany...
...An underlying angst pervades the disgruntled soldiers and bored girls at a finishing school in head-to-toe Mary Quant....
...Black made an appearance at Sportmax, a relaxed, easy collection partly inspired by Louise Dahl-Wolfe....
...For Best Actor in a Musical, the two serious contenders – Bertie Carvel in the Roald Dahl adaptation Matilda and Billy Porter in the shoe-factory show Kinky Boots, which led the field with 13 nominations...
...As I look down the list of Mary Ann, Martha and Elizabeth, I say it seems rather a lot. “Yes,” says Sister Dahl, a little less confidently....
...“It harks back to the days when Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl were being championed by Isabella Blow,” says Manfred Abraham, of consultancy Interbrand....
...Hawksmoor 11 Langley Street, London WC2 Virgin Mary £3.00 Lime and soda £2.50 Sparkling water £3.50 Fillet steaks 300g x 2 £64.00 Bone marrow gravy x 2 £4.00 Buttered greens x2 £8.00 Cappuccino £3.00...
...ROGUES, WRITERS & WHORES Book by Daniel Rogov Toby Press ₤14.99, 335 pages FT bookshop price: ₤11.99 In a memorable short story by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...
...Dahl’s books are known worldwide and last year a new film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory revived interest in them. More films of Dahl’s books are planned....
...When adultery or betrayal is involved, such as in Mary Treadgold’s The Telephone, listeners tend to align themselves with one of the parties, according to their respective sexes....
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